Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, in addition to being one of the all-time greats, is also known for his rants on the sidelines with his teammates that include dropping the F-bombs.

But just don't blame him for the profanity. Instead, he said to blame the networks when cameras show him using his word choice.

The most recent example came Sunday night during the Patriots' 23-14 victory over the San Diego Chargers on NBC to a national television audience. An emotional Brady was shown stomping up and down the sideline and cursing in an attempt to get his team going.

After Jonas Gray sat all afternoon and LeGarrette Blount returned to run for 78 yards...

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"I wish I did have a better mouth out there at times. But there's nothing that quite expresses the way I feel like that word," Brady admitted Monday morning in his weekly interview with WEEI's "Dennis and Callahan" show

"It is [a great word], especially in the heat of the moment. No I don't say it at home, of course not. It's pretty well filtered at the house. Blame CBS, NBC for putting it on TV, don't blame me.

"We're not choirboys, I know that. You bring us up to a certain level of intensity to the game, your job is to go out there and physically, emotionally, mentally dominate the game. You don't do that at church on Sunday. You've got to go to the football field for that."

Brady laughed when asked if his mother or wife have ever asked him to calm down on the field.

"It's the only place I get a chance to do it," he said. "It's such an emotional game. You've got to bring it every week. That's what you've got to do. Especially when you're making good plays like our guys were making last night, it makes it pretty easy to get excited about it.

"You're always trying to level everybody's level of awareness, raise their level of play so that you can go out there and be as excited as you possibly can. I've always played that way, and I probably will until the day I hang these cleats up."